Chapter eight: Rainbow Dash and Applejack Revealed
While Lucky was in school, Rainbow and Applejack spent time together. "So, Rainbow. Think we should tell our friends about us?" Rainbow thought. "I actually was thinking about that too. What if they don't accept us? What if they shun us or something?" Applejack understood where Rainbow was coming from. "I understand ya sugarcube, but ya never realy know until you try, right?" Rainbow actually laughed lightly. "And what's so funny?", Applejack said a little indignantly.
"Nothing, it's just that Lucky told me the same thing when I told her I like-like you." Applejack raised an eyebrow at that one. "Now how does she know about love?" "She claimed she knew because of her parents, foalsitter, and an older friend of hers back in Fillydelphia." "I think then I know how. She asked hr parnts why they look funny at each other, because she's not used to that look on somepony's face and they explain, they love each other." Rainbow looked impressed. "How in the hay did you know?"
"Personal experience." Rainbow didn't say a word. "Hey, when do you think we should tell them?", Rainbow asked. Then in typical Pinkie fashion, Pinkie pops up next to them and asked, "Tell who what?" Rainbow and Applejack jumped away from Pinkie in shock. "Oh, hey Pinkie. Um…. Tell you and the others something….." Applejack supplied the word. "Important." "Yeah, something important." They both gave grins, trying to convince Pinkie that's all there is to it.
Pinkie looked at them closely. Then she nodded, "Ok then! Meeting at Twilight's?" "Oh, um…" "Okie dokie loki! See you guys there!", then she rushed off to Twilight's. "Oh horse apples.", Rainbow said. Applejack just sighed. "Pinkie, I dunno how she does that, but she does. Pops up when you least expect or want her to. Like now. She popped up when we least wanted her to. I kinda expected her to, honestly. Knowing Pinkie." "Kinda I guess. Well… should we go then?" Applejack nodded, not wanting to, but kinda having to.
When they got there Pinkie and the other three were there. "Hey y'all." "Hi Applejack. So, Pinkie tells us you and Rainbow have something important you'd like to tell us?", Twilight said, though kind of already knowing, she's just hiding it really well. Rarity and Fluttershy had a feeling too. Pinkie, well, let's just say she has a sense of what's going on. "Well, uh…. Rainbow and I…. we uh…." Rainbow was acting all nervous too. Spike was there too, but he didn't know what was going on. "Spit it out already would ya? What's so important but why are you having a hard time telling us for?"
"Applejack and I are….. um… we're kinda… uh, together? I guess?", Rainbow said. Twilight and the others just grinned, even Spike, though he didn't know before what Twilight, the Princess, and the others imagined at the spa yesterday. "Huh?", Rainbow and Applejack said. "Congrats girls. I knew it was a matter of time.", Twilight said. "Wait, hold on here. You mean to say you knew this was going to happen?", Applejack asked. The girls nodded. "How?", Rainbow asked. "Oh, just when a little bitty filly came into your lives, well, ours too, but mostly yours because she loves you two the most. Princess Celestia and I have been sending letters in secret.
"I had asked Spike if he was able to bottle up some of his fire he uses to send letters to the Princess, he said yes and he did. Then I asked politely if he could go somewhere for a while I talk with the Princess. I told him it was too important and secretive for him to know. He agreed and went to Rarity's. Then Princess Celestia and I have been talking. She told me that Lucky told her you two are like her parents, translating to, you're her parental figures. She sees you more as mommies than friends or in your case Rainbow, just a caretaker.
She's called you mama in her sleep a lot right Rainbow?" Rainbow nodded. "She even called me that earlier when she was waking up from passing out." Everypony gasped. "Whatever happened to her to make her pass out?", Rarity asked. "She flew all the way up to our home in the clouds." This time everypony's jaws dropped. "For real?", Spike asked. Applejack and Rainbow nodded. "Oh my. The stress on her wings might have taken a toll on her small body.", Fluttershy said. Rainbow nodded. "Just like it especially would have to you Fluttershy if you were a filly again."
Fluttershy nodded. "I can't believe she actually flew up to your house. She had to have been 9 or 10 to do that, wouldn't she?", Twilight asked. "That's exactly what Miss Cheerilee said.", Applejack said. "Wow, but now finding about you two. When did you become…. Hmm, what would be the term?", Rarity said. "Marefriends!", Pinkie said. "Shush Pinkie. Keep yer voice down. We don't want Ponyville to know about us. We'll probably be outcasted or somethin'.", Applejack said.
"Sorry.", Pinkie said. "Marefriends. That does seem to make sense, doesn't it?", Rarity said, getting used to it. Fluttershy keeping out of it now. This subject wasn't something she wanted to be a part of. Especially around Rarity. Yes, she imagined AJ and Rainbow with the others, but that was different. It was about somepony in particular, or two someponies really. In general though…. Not really. She just sat on the bottom step watching the others talk. Fluttershy knew it, but didn't want to admit it, she liked Rarity. She'd known Rarity for as long as she lived down here in Ponyville.
Rarity knew her best. Rarity knew what she was all about. Rarity…. Rarity knew what made Fluttershy tick, but Fluttershy hardly got mad. There are times though…. 'Oh Rarity, if you could be my marefriend…', she thought to herself, but blushed at the thought. 'No, she'd never go for me, especially because she once had her eyes set on Prince Blue Blood.' Besides, they've always gone to the spa together, there was never a time that Fluttershy could think of that they've never gone together.
Rarity looked over to Fluttershy. "Oh girls, I think we're embarrassing Fluttershy with our talk of 'marefriend'. She's kinda the type to not want to talk like that." "Actually…. I'm happy for them. I'm just hanging back." Rainbow seemed to know what was really happening. Rarity, having known her just as long as Rainbow, senses the same thing. Fluttershy is hiding something. What she said was the truth, but she's hiding something. "Fluttershy, dear, is there something you'd like to tell us?" Fluttershy shook her head. Rarity and Rainbow just looked at her suspiciously, then looked at each other, silently communicating something, then they nodded. Fluttershy looked at them curiously. They shook their heads then went back to the others.
After a while, Lucky came walking in. "Hi everypony." "Hi Lucky.", everypony said. "So, how was school? Was it better?", Rainbow asked. "Yes, well, the first day was good too, but there was only a problem with the two fillies I told you about. Still had that problem today, and probably will always. I ignored them today. I talked and played with Scooter, Sweetie, and Applebloom." "Scooter?", everypony asked. "Scootaloo. Scooter's my nickname for her." "Oh." Lucky nodded, then went into the kitchen to do her homework.
"Oh, and Miss Cheerilee said sorry for starting me on Friday." They all smiled. "Hey Lucky, if ya need help on homework, I could help ya.", Applejack said. "I can too.", Twilight said. "Ok." As they talked, they didn't hear a peep from Lucky. Then after a while she came in with her homework. "Twilight, can you look over my homework?", she said when she put it down. Twilight smiled and nodded. She laid down and looked over Lucky's homework.
"That was a good girl Lucky, for doin' yer homework without us havin' ta ask.", Applejack said. "I always did my homework without being asked. Well… first ever day of school, in preschool, mama or papa would ask if I got homework. I told them yes if I did or no if I didn't. They'd help if I needed it, which I did sometimes. Though when they checked my homework, I sometimes got some questions wrong." Twilight then handed back one of three papers.
The first paper only had 5 questions. "You got 2 wrong. Not too bad. You're certainly a smart little filly. Just like I used to be when I was your age. Do you study a lot?" Lucky nodded. "I like school, and I like studying. I want to make mama and papa proud. Especially now that they aren't around anymore." Twilight nodded, understanding, then she went to the second paper. This one had 7 questions.
So now Rarity, Pinkie, and Fluttershy looked at each other then Lucky, Applejack, and Rainbow. "So, Lucky. Rumor has it that you see AJ and Rainbow as parental figures, is that true?", asked Fluttershy. Lucky blinked, then looked at Applejack and Rainbow who looked at her. "Who told you? Did Princess Celestia tell you?" The three shook their heads. "Then how did you know?", Lucky asked, then covered her mouth with both her hooves.
"We could see it in the way you communicate and act around them.", Rarity said. Applejack just smiled. "Hay, I even saw it. Took a bit, but I eventually saw it." Rainbow was smiling too. "I knew it since the second time you called me 'mama'. I have to ask though. Why do you call me that?" Lucky blushed lightly. "Sorry. I don't mean to. Most times it's in my sleep, from what you tell me, but this morning…. Well, I dunno. I was just waking up from fainting, I heard you guys say, and I didn't know who was waking me up I guess."
Twilight then handed the second paper over. "3 wrong." Then she looked over the last paper. 10 questions this time. Lucky looked over both papers that had been handed back too. "Hmm… which ones Twi?" Twilight looked over, thinking nothing of being called 'Twi' by Lucky. "The first I handed back it was questions 1 and 4 then the one I just handed back was questions 2, 3 and 5." "Ok." Lucky then looked at them. The others though looked at Lucky in amazement. They never thought she'd call Twilight 'Twi'.
Lucky then shrugged and put them in her folder. Then she went back out in the living room. She practiced her magic more. She tried picking one of the girls up with magic. Spike came down just in time to see Lucky picking up Applejack with magic. She yelped in surprise. Spike's jaw dropped. Lucky then put Applejack in the doorway to the kitchen. She let Applejack down and the others' jaws dropped too. "Lucky, how did you do that?", they asked, well, except Twilight because she was still looking at Lucky's last paper.
"How did Lucky do what?", she asked. "She just put Applejack in front of the doorway with her magic!" Now Twilight's jaw dropped. "Oh my… Lucky, how did you do that?" Lucky grinned. "I dunno. I just was bored and wanted to practice my magic more, so I thought of moving somepony with my magic." "You're not supposed to do that at your age. Well, you shouldn't be flying up to your home at your age either, but you did from what Rainbow told us. Though you got tired and passed out, but still."
Lucky just shrugged and said, "Maybe I'm a miracle, like Applejack said this morning." Applejack had come back over to the others by now and she said, "Honestly now, I think ya really are a miracle. If ya can do stuff that's advanced fer yer age, and I mean really advanced, then ya gotta be a miracle filly. Maybe ya should be Princess Celestia's protégé as well as Twilight."